Henry A. Foster

Henry Allen Foster (7 May 1800-11 May 1889) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-NY 17) from 4 March 1837 to 3 March 1839 (succeeding Rutger B. Miller and preceding David P. Brewster) and a US Senator from 30 November 1844 to 27 January 1845 (succeeding Silas Wright and preceding John Adams Dix).

Biography
Henry Allen Foster was born in Cazenovia, New York in 1800, and he became a lawyer in Rome in 1822. He served in the state legislature and judiciary before serving in the US House of Representatives from 1837 to 1839 and in the US Senate from 1844 to 1845. From 1864 to 1871, he served on the New York Supreme Court, and he died in 1889.